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Amitava Nag's Blog
Shyam Benegal's Ankur explores class, caste, and gender dynamics in rural India, exploring the subjugation of women and their quiet rebellion against feudal power structures. Amitava Nag reviews this groundbreaking...
Raj Kapoor’s success as a producer and director lies in his understanding of the importance of film music. It is showcased in Awara’s famous dream sequence. That single sequence was choreographed...
Renowned director Tapan Sinha laments the decline of Bengali cinema, criticizing its loss of cultural identity, lack of passion, and the pursuit of profit over artistic integrity in modern filmmaking....
Tapan Sinha, an underappreciated Bengali filmmaker, created accessible yet profound cinema. Silhouette magazine honors his birth centenary with a series of articles exploring his diverse,...
Kunal, son of Geeta and Mrinal Sen has penned an evocative account of his father in a memoir, Bondhu, published in 2023....
Between 1966 and 1969, a demi decade, the shift in Mrinal Sen's cinematic temperament is prodigious. From trying out innovative techniques to perplex his audience in parts, to maturing as an activist filmmaker...
Silhouette editor Amitava Nag explores how Mrinal Sen's groundbreaking film, Bhuvan Shome, ignited India's 'Nouvelle Vague,' blending satire, social commentary,...
Curtain raiser on the centenary celebration of Mrinal Sen’s birth anniversary...
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s Bengali cinema produced socially aware films, which seldom attacked the British imperialism and oppression. Silhouette editor Amitava Nag explores the trends...
In a brief critique, Silhouette editor Amitava Nag looks at how Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak with their different socio-psychological conditionings deal with the 'father' figure in...
Parambrata Chatterjee’s biopic of Soumitra Chatterjee, Abhijan, aspires to be an account of the great actor. It tries to portray a collage of events through flashbacks interspersed...
Amitava Nag’s The Cinema of Tapan Sinha, An Introduction book provides a succinct introduction to the cinema of Tapan Sinha and the significant place he holds in Bengali and, indeed,...
Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s Mando Meyer Upakhyan is a film that has many layers. Silhouette editor Amitava Nag deconstructs it from a post-modern perspective. Excerpts from a study published...
Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s Uttara (2000) is a film with rare poetic vision. It went on to win the Special Award for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. A Silhouette review....
Buddhadeb Dasgupta is a filmmaker with a rare sensibility towards the visual image. Unorthodox in terms of storytelling techniques, Dasgupta's early films in the first two decades spellbound the audience...
Soumitra Chatterjee is a maverick genius who dabbled the different streams of performing and creative arts with ease and a rare poise. For six decades he remained a harbinger of hope for...
Soumitra Chatterjee is a maverick genius who dabbled the different streams of performing and creative arts with ease and a rare poise. For six decades he remained a harbinger of hope for...
Soumitra Chatterjee is a maverick genius who dabbled the different streams of performing and creative arts with ease and a rare poise. For six decades he remained a harbinger of hope for...
Soumitra Chatterjee is a maverick genius who dabbled the different streams of performing and creative arts with ease and a rare poise. For six decades he remained a harbinger of...
Soumitra Chatterjee is a maverick genius who dabbled the different streams of performing and creative arts with ease and a rare poise. For six decades he remained a harbinger of...
Soumitra Chatterjee is a maverick genius who dabbled the different streams of performing and creative arts with ease and a rare poise. For six decades he remained a harbinger of hope for...
Soumitra Chatterjee is a maverick genius who dabbled the different streams of performing and creative arts with ease and a rare poise. For six decades he remained a harbinger...
Amitava Nag, editor, Silhouette was engaged in a small conversation with Catherine Berge, the director of ‘Gaach’ (‘The Tree’ 1998) - the documentary on...
Soumitra Chatterjee is a maverick genius who dabbled the different streams of performing and creative arts with ease and a rare poise. For six decades he remained a harbinger of hope for Bengalis...
Soumitra Chatterjee over-encompasses the contemporary Bengali psyche like few others. Silhouette editor Amitava Nag had the privilege of knowing him for a while in the course of writing...
Silhouette Editor Amitava Nag’s 5th Lecture in the Ray@100 Special Series explores how Ray used circles and circularity to explore the characters....
Super actor he was not. Neither was he a superstar of Hindi cinema. Yet, Shammi Kapoor holds a very special place in the hearts of many a follower of Hindi cinema. Silhouette Editor Amitava Nag looks back at him with...
Soumitra Chatterjee speaks to Silhouette Editor Amitava Nag - PART 2...
Silhouette Editor Amitava Nag's 4th Lecture in the Ray@100 Special Series explores compositional inspirations/ semblances/ correlations of Ray’s frames vis-a-vis that of established artists...
Soumitra Chatterjee speaks to Silhouette Editor Amitava Nag - PART 1...
There have been a few distinct and unique female characters in the cinema of Satyajit Ray. In the 3rd episode of Ray@100 Video Lecture Series, Silhouette editor Amitava Nag looks...
In the second episode of Ray@100 Video Lecture Series, Silhouette editor Amitava Nag looks at the glimpses of the city in Ray’s cinema....
In the first episode of Ray@100 Video Lecture Series, Silhouette editor Amitava Nag looks at the uniqueness of acting in Ray’s cinema....
Irrfan Khan was the unique incandescence in a plethora of excesses in Hindi cinema. He passed away on 29 April 2020. Silhouette editor Amitava Nag writes a heartfelt tribute....
The Great Bengal Famine, a holocaust that obliterated nearly 3 million Bengalis in a span of a year or so is mostly forgotten and undiscussed. The first film to illustrate the tragedy...
The Dreamers by Bernardo Bertolucci is an interesting film set against the backdrop of the 1968 Paris student revolution. It is studded with many finer classic moments borrowed from yesteryear films which...
With the expanse of digital technologies and internet there is a lot of data for every individual - be it taste, behavioral pattern or even social sentiment. This...
Life in Metaphors: Portraits of Girish Kasaravalli is a collection of portraits sketched by colleagues, friends, family, filmmakers and film critics,...
Mrinal Sen is one of the leading filmmakers of India. His films deal with poverty and other uncomfortable truths that plague India, probably a reason why his films have been less discussed and watched as...
With the expanse of digital technologies and internet there is a lot of data for every individual - be it taste, behavioral pattern or even social sentiment. This 'big' data is harnessed by companies as customer...
